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Michael the fans asked for it forever. Everybody thought we should have one. Except for 343 and Microsoft apparently is Halo Battle Royale could have been a game changer, says former Deb Tom Henderson over Insider Gaming. A former developer at Certain Affinity has said that Halo's now canceled battle Royale mode could have been a game changer for the franchise. Dude, absolutely. Man. What? Like what happened here? The news came via the LinkedIn profile spotted by Xbox Air F of Mike Clopper. The studio design. Director at Raven Software who was previously a game director at Certain Affinity Quote multiplayer Halo Infinite I LED a large team of designers working on a cancelled battle Royale mode for a Halo. I believe this product could have been a game changer for the franchise. We love playing it and working on it as a fantastic experience in spite of its cancellation and quote. The LinkedIn profile reads if anyone guessing why the battle Royale mode. Or Halo Infinite was cancelled, but rumors surrounding the project have been going on for the past couple of years. The battle Royale code named as Project Tatanka. And unfortunately, it's likely never to see the light of day, especially now with the changes right earlier this month Halo and now say massive rebrand including changing the name of 343 Industries. Do Halo Studios and moving the Halo franchise to Unreal Engine 5. Quote If you really break Halo down, there have been two very distinct chapters. Chapter 1, Bungie Chapter 2343 Industries and quote said studio had Pierre Heinz said now quote. Now I think we have an audience which is hungry for more, so we're now going to try to improve the efficiency of development, but change the recipe of how we make Halo games. So we start a new chapter today and quote Chapter 3 of Halo. Can it be revived? Will we get a battle Royale mode? Michael? Probably not on the battle Royale at this point, right? If they had one in the works and they scrapped it, I assume that they're not gonna bring it back. I'll be curious where this would have lined up timeline wise, right? There's a ton of different battle royales that are coming out. Depend. I know Halo Infinite while ago at this point, I remember hearing rumors of a battle Royale I thought wouldn't even come out and it had been very clunky. Maybe that was an early mode. Maybe I'm just forged. Yeah, OK. Creator made it in. Forged. OK. I thought I remember hearing about one that was hit or miss, but yeah, no, I think this would have been really interesting. Yeah. I think you and I are on the same page. I don't think Chapter 3 of Halo, it's going to last really long, and I think it's going to be the final chapter of Halo. I think they've just completely missed the boat. The TV show that we have talked about kind of was the nail in the coffin. It really killed a lot of fans. Drive now, of course, don't know how much, say 343 now, Halo Studios really had in what happened in that TV show. But yeah, I think we're maybe going to get one game. I wouldn't be shocked if it just completely flops and then boom. Studio goes under, studio shuts down, we just Halo ceases to exist. I feel like it's all those franchises that took way too long of a delay. Halo Infinite had way too many issues and people have just moved on from Master Chief in the Halo franchise. I can't say I disagree with you. I have. I guess I'm more optimistic and hopeful now they've gone with Halo studios. Dude tells me that Microsoft is all in on Halo, right? Like 3-4 three had the opportunity through them branch away from Halo and they just completely blew that by making Halo Studios. That's just like man, you want to get that studio going, make something new. Just just go away from Halo and Chief. Just let him rest in peace for a while and then do like a decade later booting back up the nostalgia would. Taken right, here's your chance to build that new audience instead. Dude, they just will not let it go. Microsoft banking on the fact that they have Halo, they have the Chief, but I don't think nobody, nobody cares, man. Nobody cares anymore. My kids don't care at all. So you're now really just kind of holding on to the older fan base like us, and a lot of us are just frustrated and disappointed with. Can they now fix it with chapter 3 is the biggest question to what happened to the battle Royale would have that saved the like Infinite as a whole because Infinite came out such piece meal modes it was a disaster. I think if everything launched on day one the way it was initially intended, I think over at Microsoft would have been a different light. But again, not it didn't work for everybody dude. Halo wasn't never a open world experience and that's how we went with Infinite. I'm OK with it. I actually had a good time, I enjoyed it. But I know a lot of people felt other otherwise. So and then the multiplayer did hit for some and not for others. How that nostalgic feel. And then again, right, how do you everybody was just talking about this battle Royale Battle Royale wears. Oh, we're not going to bring you the only BR is the battle rifle. Like come on, guys, really like what is the hotness right now? Dude, it was the battle Royale the world at that time, right? That was it still is an extent. Like there's still definitely some battle royales out there. Fortnite still going pub G still going apex and still. Making it. We got a new one just the other day off the grid. Is that there? And right now, right. And we're talking about playing that one, jumping in there. It's free to play. And that they just would have brought it. They had something in there, had the opportunity. I think that the bank off of so much more with the Halo franchise that they could have brought over instead of doing this multiplayer mode, what they did with Halo Infinite and then introduced the battle pass. I think the battle pass in the battle Royale would have been. Accepted more if that makes sense then where it is where it is right now with the multiplayer right, so but here we go Halo pretty well done at this moment. I think I like I'm sure there's still people play in the infinite multiplayer, which is great you having a good time yo, who am I to argue right going to enjoy that's what games are for games are meant for everybody and anybody. So there's a little bit over here for you a little bit over there for me and that kind of goes around for the whole industry and then when you get into this dude, chapter 3 needs to nail it. They they really need to pull their socks. Up and figure this out or they're going to continue to sync the Halo franchise.